Oh, the joys of "diversity", where different cultures bring their "diverse" standards of hygiene to a neighbourhood near you!

In the intervening four-and-a-half years, public health authorities have laboured mightily to get a simple message across: If you sell food, you have to at least try to maintain minimum standards of cleanliness. Whatever.

"An entire food court in Toronto's Chinatown district was shut down yesterday. ... The restaurants are Dragonball Deli, Dragon Pearl Restaurant*, Golden Bull, Cantonese Seafood Stir Fry*, Chu Kwong Retaurant*
and Jan Bao Delight. ... Among other problems discovered beyond kitchen doors were 'heavy mouse infestations,' 'mouse droppings in kitchens,' 'live cockroaches in kitchens' and a rat infestation in the garbage room,' including one live rat spotted by an inspector during the inspection. [The businesses marked with an asterisk were also cited for failing to provide a place for employees to wash hands]

Toronto Public Health inspection records show that all six food outlets have [long acquaintance with the department] Dragon Pearl Restaurant, for example, has had six 'conditional pass' notices since August, 2002. The restaurant was convicted and fined $300 in 2002 for failing to 'protect food from contamination' and health inspectors have issued seven court summons and two tickets since last year for food temperature, sanitation and maintenance violations. ... Dragonball Deli has also received six yellow conditional pass ratings since August, 2002, including eight summonses and two tickets for employee hygiene, food contamination and sanitary infractions. In May, Cantonese Seafood Stir Fry was convicted and fined
$180 on two tickets related to food contamination and sanitation infractions. Golden Bull has had three yellow conditional pass ratings since December, 2002, for a range of problems including 'failing to ensure
food is not contaminated/adulterated,' 'failure to properly wash equipment,' and 'inadequate food temperature control.' In March, health inspectors ticketed the restaurant for failing to 'properly wash surfaces in rooms.'" (Toronto Star, June 30, 2004)

The bad news for Toronto diners is that some restaurants evidently see fines of $180 or even $300 as just another cost of doing business. As of June 1st, a legion of health inspectors have been diverted to sniff out smokers. And with smoking fines to restaurateurs ranging from $255 to $5,000, why sniff out rat-infested kitchens? There seems to be some confusion among the PC classes about the relative threats posed by, say, a puff of smoke, or your cook's quick trip to the washroom, after which he neglects to wash his hands -- an ideal delivery system for a case of hepatitis A. Hepatitis B, or serum hepatitis, is transmitted through body fluids -- not entirely improbable where kitchen knives and nicks are commonplace. According to the Centres for Disease Control, (CDC HIV/STD/TB News Update, August 23, 2001) fully two-thirds of China's 1.26-billion people are infected with hepatitis.

Yes, multiculturalism -- the a form of mental AIDS -- has consquences!

MICHAEL STUPARYK/TORONTO STAR (Jun. 30, 2004)
A restaurant employee at the Chinatown Centre food court posts a closed sign on the wall yesterday after Toronto public health inspectors shut down all its restaurants, citing gross violations of food safety rules, including a rodent infestation. The action is an unprecedented move by city health officials. About 500 pounds of food was destroyed.

City closes Spadina food court
Rodent, roach infestations found
Long history of inspection trouble

ROBERT CRIBB
STAFF REPORTER

An entire food court in Toronto's Chinatown district was shut down yesterday after health officials discovered an infestation of rats and cockroaches.

In an unprecedented move, Toronto Public Health slapped red "Closed" signs on six restaurants in the downtown food court of the Chinatown Centre at 222 Spadina Ave., near Dundas St. W.

Inspectors cited the Chinese-food eateries for a range of violations, including sanitation problems, rodent droppings, rat and cockroach infestations and food safety issues, said Jim Chan, a food safety manager with Toronto Public Health.

"This is the first time we've closed a whole food court," Chan said. "The places have been warned before, and some of the establishments have been charged before. Today, the inspectors found the sanitation was way too bad."

My friend was eating at a Chinese food restauant and when he got his dish it apparently had a nut that he was allergic too. So he told the waiter to take it back and take the nuts off. Well at that restaurant it was considered disrespectful to the chef to ask for the dish to be returned so a couple days later he was felling sick so he went to the hospitale only to discover he had semen in his stomach.

What a fantastic picture collage. I was laughing really hard, until I checked myself and remembered that these atrocities are all from Toronto, the once beautiful English-Canadian city I grew up. It is now, according to the NEW YORK TIMES, 60 per cent non-White. The street scenes look as if it has been transformed into Kabul, Shanghai or Kingston -- Jamaica, that is!

We need a new political party to reverse the ethnic cleansing that's been imposed on Whites.

.. ha ha. No wonder Canada has a "no fault" health care policy. Just too many eating "accidents" waiting to happen. Sometimes it's a bit hard to appreciate the joys of multiculturalism when sitting next to some SE asian who's breaking open a nearly hatched duck egg and bites the head off the struggling duckling and proceeds to crunch it down with much gusto.

I actually stayed in China Town last time i was in Toronto. I believe it was in a hostel on Spadina between an African "art" store and a Japanes sushi bar. Next to me was a Pakistani family. my god, there were, like, 6 kids running up and down the halway all night. Combine that with the t.v blasting at 3:00 in the morning and the smell of curry (Im not sure we were aloud to cook in the rooms, but that didnt stop them), and my 5 days in T/O were a rather unpleasnt memory.

The scary thing is I may have eaten at one of the ratholes mentioned in this story. Hey, I was hungry and they were close. Mistake I made will not be repeated.

To make my trip even more fun, the reason I went was to see my girlfriend. She dumped me on New Years eve.